构建社会主义和谐社会,既是对中国传统文化有关社会和谐思想的批判继承,更是对马克思、恩格斯关于和谐社会设想的继承和发展,本文在论述和谐社会理论渊源的基础上,比较分析了“小康社会”、“大同社会”和空想社会主义“和谐制度”的异同,明确了社会主义和谐社会的历史地位,探讨了国家在社会主义构建和谐社会中的作用。 Building a socialist harmonious society is not only a critical inheritance of the thought of social harmony in Chinese traditional culture, but also a continuation and development of Marx and Engels’s assumption of a harmonious society. On the basis of a discussion of the theoretical origins of a harmonious society, Social “,” Datong society “and Utopian socialism” harmonious system ", clarified the historical status of the socialist harmonious society and explored the role of the state in building a harmonious socialist society.